Marwood
@marwoodlennox.bsky.social
Tragically one of those internet intellectuals
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"steely dan" i think his name was actually joseph stalin
December 9, 2025 at 6:58 PM
"steely dan" i think his name was actually joseph stalin
Why would European leaders do this exactly?
December 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Why would European leaders do this exactly?
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Anti-Ukraine arguments over the past few years are mostly well ensconced in the Intellectual Dishonesty Hall of Fame at this point, but there is a particular place on the podium for those who portray Zelenskyy like he's Franjo Tudjman.
December 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Anti-Ukraine arguments over the past few years are mostly well ensconced in the Intellectual Dishonesty Hall of Fame at this point, but there is a particular place on the podium for those who portray Zelenskyy like he's Franjo Tudjman.
Not forgotten here!
love it when a comic strip reminds us of long forgotten ethnic stereotypes like "scottish people are cheap"
December 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Not forgotten here!
TIL the UN considers Ireland and the UK as part of 'Northern Europe'.
December 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
TIL the UN considers Ireland and the UK as part of 'Northern Europe'.
Oh of course
December 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Oh of course
Babe, babe wake up... new Dan Jarvis dropped.
December 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Babe, babe wake up... new Dan Jarvis dropped.
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Government should simply stop pressing the button in the DfE marked “low quality degrees” and instead start pressing the button marked “high quality apprenticeships”, duh!
Also when they explain which businesses are going to offer these apprenticeships and how they're going to improve the high drop-out rate and poor quality of many of them.
Badenoch says the Conservatives would want fewer “low value degrees” and many more apprenticeships. As ever with such announcements I will perhaps take it more seriously when the kids of government ministers and MPs are routinely doing apprenticeships and not degrees.
December 9, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Government should simply stop pressing the button in the DfE marked “low quality degrees” and instead start pressing the button marked “high quality apprenticeships”, duh!
Going to be fun if this is applied to Northern Ireland.
The Conservative party’s policy also includes stripping people of their British citizenship when they are found guilty of a crime ⬇️
All criminals with dual nationality must be deported, say Tories
The Conservative party’s policy also includes stripping people of their British citizenship when they are found guilty of a crime
www.thetimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Going to be fun if this is applied to Northern Ireland.
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My favourite bit of COVID was watching a group of teens sit socially distanced in a circle in the park, wearing masks, which they each removed and replaced in turn as they passed a spliff between them.
December 9, 2025 at 9:56 AM
My favourite bit of COVID was watching a group of teens sit socially distanced in a circle in the park, wearing masks, which they each removed and replaced in turn as they passed a spliff between them.
Of course, of course.
"Gareth Sheridan went to Tucker Carlson's Christmas party" is already crazy, but "Gareth Sheridan took a photo with the world's most famous antisemitic conspiracy theorist, then voluntarily posted it on the Internet" is blowing my fucking mind
December 9, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Of course, of course.
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“Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.”
December 8, 2025 at 8:48 PM
“Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.”
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Elite overproduction fans seem mostly concerned with serf under production in my experience.
December 6, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Elite overproduction fans seem mostly concerned with serf under production in my experience.
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IMO this also gets at another fundamental MAGA divide which is that most of them like Noem primarily want to pump out deportation content, which is going very well, while Miller genuinely wants to permanent reshape the demographics of American society, which is not
That Miller reportedly wants Noem gone because she's not being aggressive enough really shows how high on their own supply these guys are. What they're doing is already historically unpopular, and they want to do it even harder.
i am skeptical trump would actually go through with this, even if miller wants it, but i am even *more* skeptical of the idea that youngkin would take the job.
December 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
IMO this also gets at another fundamental MAGA divide which is that most of them like Noem primarily want to pump out deportation content, which is going very well, while Miller genuinely wants to permanent reshape the demographics of American society, which is not
This discourse made me want to look at Unherd and I see they have a piece on how the Brooks Brothers riot saved America.
Apparently Tim Montgomerie, ex-Tory strategist, congenital moron and founder of the site, called it such as he believed cows didn't form herds.
December 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
This discourse made me want to look at Unherd and I see they have a piece on how the Brooks Brothers riot saved America.
Real classic example of "only left wingers have agency" here.
The answer is no, it's not the job of journalists to never criticise the left in case it drives Joe Lonsdale to be more sexist. You could just as easily argue that leftwing over-reach caused that and it would be better if it had been inhibited by more scrutiny. Reality is more complex than either.
December 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Real classic example of "only left wingers have agency" here.
For Women Scotland vs Nando's (2029) will be a case for the ages, no doubt.
December 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM
For Women Scotland vs Nando's (2029) will be a case for the ages, no doubt.
But in a spiritual way, were they wrong?
The internet actually thought Ron Paul was going to be president at one point which is a more damaging indictment of millennial culture than anything that I regularly see people use to own us
December 8, 2025 at 1:37 PM
But in a spiritual way, were they wrong?
Maybe in the US but not in the UK where there was and is a widespread support for lockdown as polls keep on demonstrating.
However the public also want lockdowns with no negative economic consequences so...
However the public also want lockdowns with no negative economic consequences so...
That's not what they're learning. What they're learning is that the mass public hates lockdowns and the consequences of them, and it's politically easier just to let it rip.
This is very bad, but it's not 'capitalism' at work here. It's a mass public with bad priorities.
This is very bad, but it's not 'capitalism' at work here. It's a mass public with bad priorities.
By Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social
"The UK says it won't even bother when the next pandemic hits. The lesson most countries have drawn from covid is that letting the old and weak die is better for capitalism. The pandemic was a waymarker on our journey to a harsher, crueller world"
"The UK says it won't even bother when the next pandemic hits. The lesson most countries have drawn from covid is that letting the old and weak die is better for capitalism. The pandemic was a waymarker on our journey to a harsher, crueller world"
December 8, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Maybe in the US but not in the UK where there was and is a widespread support for lockdown as polls keep on demonstrating.
However the public also want lockdowns with no negative economic consequences so...
However the public also want lockdowns with no negative economic consequences so...
The Bruce Lee scene in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is a) brilliantly written and b) hilarious, and I won't hear people bore on otherwise.
December 8, 2025 at 10:40 AM
The Bruce Lee scene in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is a) brilliantly written and b) hilarious, and I won't hear people bore on otherwise.
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Well. Looks like London’s new Tolkien theme park is going to be this year’s Glasgow Wonkaland.
December 8, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Well. Looks like London’s new Tolkien theme park is going to be this year’s Glasgow Wonkaland.
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i don't really think the "male loneliness epidemic" is primarily about romance, nor do i think that it's disconnected from loneliness affecting other groups. most of the discussion about this takes MRA logic and just inverts it.
December 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
i don't really think the "male loneliness epidemic" is primarily about romance, nor do i think that it's disconnected from loneliness affecting other groups. most of the discussion about this takes MRA logic and just inverts it.
Ok yeah, this is going to end up being a massive legal trainwreck.
falkner argues the bathroom ban will be self-enforcing
just like *checks notes* . . . traffic laws
just like *checks notes* . . . traffic laws
December 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Ok yeah, this is going to end up being a massive legal trainwreck.